So just to let anyone interested know I am located in the U.S. And haven't build a new pc since PII's were the latest rage. After buying medocre pc's for the last ice age or so, I decided I wanted to build one again since that seems to be where you get the best bang for your buck. And after watching Linus build his 4k rig, which I would love but am unable to afford at the moment. So here are the items I am looking at putting into my new/first build since Hoover was in office.
I am mostly going to use this as a gaming pc but will need to use it as a remote workstation for when I have to do work from home but I don't think that should be any kind of issue. I am going to be playing games like Dragon Age Inquisition and I have a heavily modded Skyrim that I am playing right now.
Hard drives in my current build I only have a 24gb solid state and a 3tb 7200 rpm mechanical drive. Should I go with 2 solid state drives and forget about mechanical drives all together?
Looking to spend between $1500-$2000 if cost goes over a bit that's fine, I'm looking for sales and may buy this piece by piece.
Monitors: 2 Acer H236HL BID 23-inch widescreen LCD set to 1920x1080, I just bought these last year so no need to replace them.
Case: Corsair Graphite Series Arctic White 760T Full Tower Windowed Case CC-9011045-WW
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) (BX80646I74790K)
Processor Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H110 280 mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX760 FTW with ACX Cooler 4GB GDDR5 256Bit Dual-Link DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Ready 04G-P4-3768-KR (Thinking about SLI but still a bit confused by that setup but looks pretty nice)
Power Supply: Corsair RM series 750 Watt ATX/EPS 80Plus Gold Certified Power Supply CP-9020055-NA RM750
RAM memory: I have no clue what would be the best ram to purchase?
3 motherboards I am looking at are:
ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO Z97 ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards MAXIMUS VII HERO
EVGA Z97 FTW LGA1150 ATX 4 DIMM Dual-Channel DDR3 2666MHz Motherboard 142-HR-E977-KR
MSI ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97-GD65 GAMING
I'm not sure which one would be the best one for gaming. Or if anyone has suggestions for a different board.
As for operating system I will probably load win 8.1 64, unless I can find Win 7 64 real cheap somewhere.
I have a new KB and mouse already, and a 2tb external hard drive that I use for backup.
Any comments, questions, or HELP is much appreciated.